nuclear weapons, foreign policy, antiquity, cocktails
Words: Nation, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, NK News, US Institute of Peace, New Republic, elsewhere
seniores tollunt omnia
John Carl Baker
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Which one of you signed me up for GOP election texts from South Carolina? That is just cruel.
“it will be impossible to hide that the outcome of this war is an American defeat of historic proportions”
"As an oligarchy is not a figment of political theory, a specious fraud, or a mere term of abuse, but very precisely a collection of individuals, its shape and character, so far from fading away on close scrutiny, at once stands out, solid and manifest." - Ronald Syme
"As an oligarchy is not a figment of political theory, a specious fraud, or a mere term of abuse, but very precisely a collection of individuals, its shape and character, so far from fading away on close scrutiny, at once stands out, solid and manifest." - Ronald Syme
“Any further comparison of the two agreements would be like comparing a fully constructed house with the concept of a new building.”
John Carl Baker
This dynamic with Vance, in which an admin member associated with restraint (rightly or wrongly) becomes the scapegoat for hawkish actions that predictably failed, strikes me as a political wrinkle of recent foreign policy debates that hadn't really been foreseen.
